It obviously cannot be any type that we ordinarily encounter. A variable of type String cannot hold a value of type Object — the Liskov substitution properties simply do not work that way round. The… (more…)

Project Valhalla has posted a major update and has announced some initial, very early-stage design concepts for value types in the JVM. (more…)

eclipse-plugin-commander - Eclipse user interface enhancements... (more…)

Here I describe five concise ways to copy file using java FileInputStream, NIO FileChannel class, Java 7 Files class, Guava API and Apache common IO. (more…)

Every now and then I get my hands on a Java project that requires to talk to a database. Depending on who of my team mates I'm talking to, database experts or Java developers, there exist different views on how to model and access data. In my early days a... (more…)